Holder for garbage containers



March 27, 1951 J. R. SWISHER ET AL HOLDER FOR GARBAGE CONTAINERS FiledMarch 15, 1948 JAMES A SOL/LE5 INVENTOR.

Patented Mar. 2'7, 1951 OFFICE HOLDER FOR GARBAGE CONTAINERS Joseph R.Swisher and James A. Soules, Decatur, Ill.

Application March 13, 1948, Serial No. 14,678

2 Claims.

This invention relates to garbage pail holders and more particularly tosuch that can be mounted on a wall, fence or an upright post or othersuitable support.

'An important object of the invention is to simplify'the construction soas to facilitate its inanufacture and minimize the cost thereof, and atthe same time produce a device of its kind which is easily kept clean,is especially sanitary on the whole and is practical and highlyefiicient for the purpose intended. With these and other objects andadvantages to be. attained, as will hereinafter more fully appear in thefollowing description, the invention consist in the parts andcombinations and arrangement of parts described in connection with theaccompanying drawings illustrative of a practical but non-limitingadaptation of the invention.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the holder device with aconventional garbage pail placed thereon, the holder device being shownin full lines and the pail in dotted lines.

Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the parts shown in Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a top plan view;

Figure 4 is a detail perspective view of the horizontal supporting basemember of the holder device alone and detached from the frame structure;and

Figure 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the transverse supportmembers that are provided on the horizontal supporting base member inthe complete frame assembly of the holder device.

Referrin now to the drawings in detail, the numeral 6 designates anelongated, relatively narrow, upright bar which is apertured atintervals lengthwise thereof, as at I, so as to receive securin screwsor bolts (not shown) by which the bar can be fastened securely to awall, fence or a post or other support. To secure lightness with amplerigidity and strength in the bar 6 it is shown as marginally flangedthroughout its longitudinal sides and ends, thus making it flatfaced onits outer side and hollow on its inner side, with its marginalstiffening flanges disposed inwardly so as to abut the face of the wall,fence, posts or the like to which the bar is attached in use of theholder device.

Bolted, as at 8, or otherwise securely and rigidly fastened to the lowerportion of said bar 6, is a horizontal supporting base or bracket member9. This member 9, as shown, is in the form of a rigid cast metal framehaving a rectangular margin- 2 ally flanged and vertically channeledsocket portion II] which fits over the aforesaid upright bar member 6and is provided with an aperture I I to register with a correspondingaperture obviously provided in the barmember to receive the securingbolt 8 just above described.

The supporting base or bracket member 9, as shown, comprises two outerside rails I2 extending outward from the socket portion I0 andcrossconnected near their outer ends by a transverse bar I3, said siderails I2 having upturned outer end portions I4. The transverse bar I3 isrigidly connected to the socket portion I0 bya medial longitudinal barI5, said medial bar I5 having a triangular gusset portion or reinforcingrib I6 on its underside. The inner end ll of this portion I6 is squaredand abuts the adjacent lower, outer face portion of the upright mainframe bar 6 of the holder device (see Figures 1 and 2).

Obviously, the open frame-like supporting base element 9 is, in itself,rigid, and the peculiarly marginally flanged and channeled attachingprovision of the socket portion I0, together with the particular endabutment I! of the medial bar reinforcement I6, makes for lightnes ofstructure of the element and strength and steadiness in its attachmentto said upright main frame bar 6. This is of particular advantagebecause said supporting base element 9 has to carry the weight of thegarbage pail whether the same be loaded or unloaded.

In Figures 1, 2 and 3, the garbage pail is desingated by the numeral I8as in place on the holder device and it is illustrated in dotted lines.As shown, the base element 9 (see Figure l) is of a length to extenddiametrically under and project slightly beyond the pail I8 and theupturned ends I4 of the side rails I2 of said element 9 serve as stopsto normally prevent the pail I8 from sliding off said element 9.

To support the cover I9 of pail I8 when removed from the pail a chain orother suitable flexible element of cord 20 is fastened at one end to theupper end portion of the upright main frame bar 6 of the holder device,as at ZI, the other end of the element 20 being attached, as at 22, tothe handle loop 23 of said cover I9. In this way the cover I9 can beobviously removed from the pail I8 at will and allowed to hang by thechain or flexible supporting element 20 whenever access to the pail I8is desired or it becomes necessary to remove the pail from the holderdevice.

Adequate provision for supplemental transverse Preferably, theattachment of the members 2 1 is adjustable on the base918%?1l1ltjQLiAiS shown A (see Figure 4) the two side rails I2 andmedial bar [5 of the element 9 are I'eess'el, as at 26,;ti)

horizontal legs of the members;2;are fitted horie zontally slidable. Asshown, the recessed seat it provide seats in which the laterallyoverlapped relation with provision for relative longitudinal adjustmentcross-wise on said horizontal base element and their other legs verticaland dis posed laterally from opposite sides of the base element.

2. The herein described holder device for garbage pails and the like,comprising an upright bar for attachment to a supporting wall face orthe like, said bar being marginally flanged rearwardly and h'avihg a"flat front face,-an='open framelike horizontal base element having avertically channeled socket portion at its inner end attached-to thelower portion of said upright bar, a pair of transversely spaced apartlongitudinal side rails extending forward from said socket portion withupturned outer ends and cross-connected near said ends, a mediallongitudinal bar portion 26 of the medial bar 15 of theeIeinefitS iswidened and provided with a pairof screwthreaded apertures-'27 toreceive securing screws "28' (see Figure 3") that are passed throughlen- *gitudi-nal slots "29 provided therefor {in the compa'nion'horizonta-l leg portions of the member 24.

this way the rhember-sikcanbe obviously adjusted transversely of thebase element -9 and fastened by the screws 28 in such adjusted position.-Frorn the foregoing-Eds apparent that-a simple yet practical andeificient, sanitary holder "1-3 like'su'p'port including an iiprig-htbarfor attach-.

merit to .a wan: face or other vertical -supporting surface, ahorizontal base element -attached at its inner end to the lower portionof said'upr ight fb a'r and having upturned fpail retainer provision "atits outer "eiid, and {a pairor transverse siip- 'pleiriental supportingmembers of "substantially L-shape and respectively-mounted with-one "oftheir legs horizontal and secured inside byside connectingsaid'socketportion with the crosseo'nhecti'on between said side rails and having adepending, longitudinal, reinforcing rib the inner end=of which isquared and abuts the adjacent outer'face portion of said upright bar,said side rails and medial lengitudinal bar being grecessed intransverse alinement, and (a pairof L- shape supporting members with oneleg of each upstanding and-projected laterally from the base element andthe outer legs of said suppQrting members :horiaontal .in side-by-side:relation to each other "and seated slidably adjustable .in the recessedportions of said base element, the honizontal legs of saidh-strapesupportingmembers having longitudinal slots through whichreleasable fasteners are inserted and'held .inlapertures provided in therecessed portions of vtl1e loase--ele ment. JOSEPH R. .SW ISHER.

JAMES-A. SOULES;

aeeeaewoes *oiriio The following references are of record in "the fileot this :p-atent-I UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,448,456 Niskanen ,et a1. Aug.31, 11948

